Field-Tested Books Book

Location, Location, Location.

Announcing our biggest, best edition of Field-Tested Books yet. We looked over the shoulders of lots of smart people while they read lots of interesting books in lots of familiar and unfamiliar places and now you can too. All the Field Tests from this new collection and previous years are online. Plus, we've created a sweet, new, limited-edition poster with Spike Press and we're totally excited to say that the first-edition of The Field-Tested Books Book, a paperback containing 143 selected reviews, is also available for purchase. We'll be making a donation to First Book for every one we sell, so order a book for yourself and help us buy a truckload of new books for underprivileged kids. The First-Editions are shipping now. Buy one today we'll ship it today.

News: Thanks to everyone who came to our recent live Field-Tested Readings, in Chicago and New York City.

Grey Skies Are Gonna Clear Up

Tips For Tough Times

As a public service, Steve Delahoyde and our pals from Schadenfreude present a new series of handy tips for Surviving The New Depression. Get happy.

Museum Of Online Museums

Summer at The MoOM

Tons of new listings and exhibits have been posted for the summer at our Museum of Online Museums. The MoOM was featured on All Things Considered and in the NY Times. It was also selected as one of Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites and was discussed on a recent episode of NPR's Hello Beautiful! Consider joining our Museum Board, a subscription comes with a coffee mug but none of the snootiness so often associated with the patronage of cultural institutions.

A CP Film In Five Parts

Laboratory Conditions

While we were in Los Alamos, New Mexico, looking for locations for one film project, we discovered a lot more about the town and its people than we bargained for. So we made a different film and called it Laboratory Conditions. It's being shown here in five pieces and is also available on DVD.

How Do You Spell Courage?

Inaction Heroes

For the proper effect, check the trailer first and then please take a few minutes (eleven actually) to watch our short feature film about words, pictures and bravery, Copy Goes Here. In case you missed it, here's what our home page looked like when we debuted the movie.

A CP Labs: Film

Shift Option Rinse

Can you really clean your computer keyboard in the dishwasher? With the help of the RinseCam 9000, Michele created a short film to find out.

An SD Film Regrets

Passing Fancy

From JC's talk at Seed Conference 3. If you're at all like us and are better suited for starting things than you are for finishing them, you ought to pay attention to the fifth film in Steve's "Regrets" series, Hobbies.

Made In the U.S. of A. Field Notes

Places Of Note

Our newest brand was created in combination with the unstoppable Draplin Design Company of Portland Oregon. The first offering from Field Notes Brand is a super durable made-in-the-USA memo book inspired by vintage farmers' planting books and other practical, historic, mostly-midwestern American design. The notebooks are showing up in lots of interesting places, including in a recent issue of Lego Magazine!

Layer Tennis The Final Fiasco

Forth and Back

It was a long, amazing Layer Tennis Season, relive it here while we start planning the next one. The matches were presented by Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 , the weapon of choice for creative people and Layer Tennis players everywhere. The project has just been shortlisted for Cannes Lions in two categories, "Best Use of Internet/New Media" and "Business Products & Services." Winners are announced Wednesday.

Heather Is The New Black

The Tee

We have made tee shirts for a variety of projects but until now we have never made a simple Coudal Partners shirt. And this one is about as simple as it gets. A tee, perfectly constructed tee from a sweet new blend with just our "Crois" logo on the front. That's it.

One With Everything

Which Porn Star Ate the Most Hot Dogs?

Subscribers to our Infrequent Mailings got a head start on this all-beef, but not entirely kosher, new puzzler and we received hundreds of entries from people like Dick Ideal, Chi-Chi Streamview, Brandy Nottingham and Frisky St. James.

Try to solve our other logic puzzlers including Einstein's Fish, School of Government and Da Vinci's Other Code.

Other recent features are listed on Page Two.

Fresh Signals

Noted without comment. 100thofasecond.com. jc-today

Revisiting these photographs of architectural patterns in Hong Kong by Michael Wolf. Via the Ministry. se-today

Life's railway to heaven. ms-today

Christopher Bowns, looking polite and stylish. jc-today

For SE, the Valmont Bike Park in Boulder. dw-today

From an occasional series, Great Moments in Fresh Signals History. Frames of Reference. Ghost in the Underblows. Fully Flared. 1999 AD. and Courir les Rues. jc-today

Meet Emily. Emily is not real. jc-today

We Made This posts up their own design guide to Newcastle. se-today

Super cute greeting cards from She's so creative. ms-today

Custom 'Beware of Dog' Signs from Nepal. Thanks Henry. sd-today

Objectify me. Marian Bantjes and Her Toothbrush. jc-today

Maybe MS can do this with some of those insects she's collecting. se-today

Our friend and occasional co-conspirator Jason Koxvold went to the Arctic Circle for two weeks. This is what happened. He brought his camera too. jc-today

If orange isn't your thing, perhaps blue? dw-today

Controversy over counters and cash registers in Calatrava's Milwaukee Art Museum entry hall. se-today

Video for Yacht's Summer Song. dw-today

Pebble alphabet. dw-today

New to iPhone apps, the lovely Shadows Never Sleep. ms-today

Lots of nice felt products by etcetera. dw-today

The beautiful Kielder Observatory and a visit to check it out. sd-today

Society in Decline's Intrastate Commerce photoset. Thanks, Paz. se-today

Too cute, gorilla salt and pepper shakers. ms-today

Mess around with interactive mathematical visualizations at the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. Interesting stuff, and hey - who can resist Polyhedral Koalas? se-today

Video for Sophisticated Side Ponytail by Natalie Portman's Shaved Head. Niiice. Keep an eye out for the Getty Images watermark. se-today

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and an elegant typographic solution, set in all caps. BVD's cafe concept Stories. Via The Dieline. jc-today

Tangentially related to the last, commonly made suggestions about commonly made errors, and more importantly, non-errors, "those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in English." Which is exactly the sort of attitude up with which I will not put. jc-today

Sex and the semicolon. ms-today

Polar submarines. ms-today

Fab, Bendit bookends. ms-today

The Shortest Path Tree, an experiment in mapping and the visual display of information by Brandon Martin-Anderson. jc-today

Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. ms-today

Love this. ms-today

A stop motion short, A Short Love Story. ms-today

Grain Edit has a peek inside Small Studio in Lyon, France. jc-today

Interiors from MUFG, a Japanese Bank. How can I open an account? jc-today

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Chet Yeary II
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Charles Adler
Paul Joyce
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Cameron Moll
J. Thomas Lowell
Hillman Curtis
Gridiron Software
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Simon Angling
Colin Scroggins
Inline Studio
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Matt Mullenweg
Alexander Muse
Dan Rubin
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Brian Seethaler
Lightburn
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Bill Keaggy
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Greg Hoy
Issa Breibish
Drew Stauffer
Abby Urban
Christopher Ebmeyer
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Robert D. Whitson

Your Name Here

the pitch

You can be an Executive Producer of our new short feature film, 72°. If you've always wanted to be a hotshot Hollywood player, or you just want to lend a hand to the project here's your chance.

A Thing We Made:
Jewelboxing

We hated the options available for custom packaging DVDs and CDs so we created a brand that gives creative professionals and hobbyists the tools to make great stuff. Here's a bit from the latest Jewelboxing weblog entry:

"I was really surprised at just how easy it was to print, punch out, and put together, and I was even happier with the results." Read the entire post.

Some Other Things We Made:

Field Notes Brand "I'm not writing it down to remember it later. I'm writing it down to remember it now." A CP/DDC joint.

Pinsetter: Spell with buttons.

Limited-edition, professionally mixed and mastered, custom-designed live performances on CD. That's The Show. With partners like The Pixies and Dead Can Dance. More news soon.

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